1808

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1805 1806 1807 - 1808 - 1809 1810 1811\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n*January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned\n*February 11 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.\n*February - Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France, Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland.\n* March 26 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII\n* April 6 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company. \n* May 3 - The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia, during the Finnish War.\n* November - Swedish troops evacuate Finland. Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia.\n* November - James Madison defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election\n*Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa IV (1807-1808) to Mahmud II (1808-1839) \n*December - Napoleon invades Spain

Ongoing events

\n* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Finnish War \n

Births

\n* January 27-David Strauss, German theologian\n*February 5 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (+ 1885)\n* February 26 - Honoré Daumier, painter, illustrator, lithograph and sculptor (+ 1879)\n* October 6 - King Frederick VII of Denmark

Deaths

\n* March 13 - King Christian VII of Denmark\n* May 18 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon whiskey \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n